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Topic started on 17-1-2012 @ 12:46 PM by mblahnikluver
Fourth Graders in Montana won the contest to name Nasa's Twin Moon probes and this is what they picked

"Ebb" & "Flow"



NASA's twin gravity-mapping moon probes received new names Tuesday (Jan. 17), reflecting their mission to study the changing pull of Earth's natural satellite.

Now to be called "Ebb" and "Flow," the tandem Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (or Grail) spacecraft arrived in lunar orbit over the New Year weekend and were previously referred to simply as "A" and "B". Their new names were offered by fourth grade students in Bozeman, Mont., who were chosen as the winners of NASA's naming contest.


I think this is great! I remember in 2nd grade we got some tomato seeds that went to space on the shuttle and our class grew them once they came back and tracked the progress to see if being in space kept them from growing. I made the paper measuring my plant, tongue sticking out and all. Funny thing is space didn't affect their growth, my grandparents had it for years


I like when schools get involved in things like this. I live on the Space Coast so our schools were always very involved with various space programs. It was cool and probably explains my love of space exploration

According to NASA, about 900 classrooms with more than 11,000 students from 45 states — as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia — suggested names. The contest was open to U.S. students in kindergarten through 12th grade and began about a month after the probes were launched last September and ran through Nov. 11.


I remember when they started this, I followed it on FB. I even gave my suggestions, which for the life of me I can't remember! It was neat to see the names people came up with but the final name was down to the kids! I am sure they are excited as was I as a kid whenever we did anything that involved the space program. I think my mom still has the paper clipping of me measuring my tomato


The link below has a video on GRAIL, sorry it's not a youtube vid so I can't embed it.



Ebb and Flow


reply posted on 19-1-2012 @ 11:13 PM by Soylent Green Is People
reply to post by mblahnikluver


That's Eb from "Green Acres" and Flo from "Alice". Eb and Flo.

I suppose you may not know them if you didn't watch a lot of TV through the decade of the 1970s.
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